“What shall you give to God?” Psalm 116
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Gracious is the Lord, and righteous;
our God is merciful.
I Love the Lord
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I love the Lord, because he has heard
my voice and my pleas for mercy.
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Because he inclined his ear to me,
therefore I will call on him as long as I live.
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The snares of death encompassed me;
the pangs of Sheol laid hold on me;
I suffered distress and anguish.
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Then I called on the name of the Lord:
“O Lord, I pray, deliver my soul!”
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Gracious is the Lord, and righteous;
our God is merciful.
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The Lord preserves the simple;
when I was brought low, he saved me.
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Return, O my soul, to your rest;
for the Lord has dealt bountifully with you.
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For you have delivered my soul from death,
my eyes from tears,
my feet from stumbling;
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I will walk before the Lord
in the land of the living.
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I believed, even when I spoke:
“I am greatly afflicted”;
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I said in my alarm,
“All mankind are liars.”
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What shall I render to the Lord
for all his benefits to me?
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I will lift up the cup of salvation
and call on the name of the Lord,
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I will pay my vows to the Lord
in the presence of all his people.
Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit;
as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be forever. Amen.
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Gracious is the Lord, and righteous;
our God is merciful.
COLLECT OF THE DAY
O God, through the humiliation of Your Son You raised up the fallen world. Grant to Your faithful people, rescued from the peril of everlasting death, perpetual gladness and eternal joys; through Jesus Christ, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen